Mandaluyong has new top cop

MANILA, Philippines — Mandaluyong City has a new police chief.

Senior Superintendent Moises Villaceran would assume command of the city’s police force today, Director Oscar Albayalde, chief of the National Capital Region Police Office, said yesterday.

Villaceran would replace Senior Superintendent Joaquin Alva, who spent more than two years as city police chief, Albayalde said.

Alva would be placed on a temporary floating status.

Albayalde said he has coordinated with Mandaluyong Mayor Menchie Abalos for the turnover.

Villaceran is a member of the Philippine National Police Academy Class ’95.

He was the operation officer of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 18, the Negros Island Region, which was dissolved by President Duterte recently.

PRO 18 director Chief Superintendent Edmund Gonzales assumed his new post yesterday as deputy director for administration of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.